Abstract
The top R&D spenders worldwide account for a high share of total R&D input in each of the triad nations, thus indicating the importance of (international) R&D activities carried out by multinational companies (illustrated in Table I.2.1). The significance of international R&D activities is even larger when indirect influence of these companies on small- and medium-sized enterprises is taken into account.
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References
Pearce and Singh (1992), Vorort (1994), Granstrand et al (1993).
For a detailed description of our research methodology, see Gassmann (1997a), Gassmann and von Zedtwitz (1998, 1999), von Zedtwitz (1999), von Zedtwitz and Gassmann (2002a, 2003), von Zedtwitz et al. (2004), Boutellier, et al. (2007).
There is no significant interdependence between R&D intensity and R&D internationalization (see Gassmann and von Zedtwitz, 1999).
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(2008). Extent of R&D Internationalization. In: Managing Global Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68952-2_2
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